> > The guy had the nerve to ask us to support him. 
> There's support, and there's support.
> Support for his actions?, of course not.

What he asked was helping him to convince the police that nothing
serious has happened, and keeping him in the club.

> But, if he was an apparently decent person in all other 
> respects, good 
> work ethic, lots of selfless service to others, hadn't been dipping 
> into club funds when he could have (check carefully!) etc, 
> then it may 
> well be appropriate to note that to the authorities.

This shows that we live in different juridical systems. In a UK-derived
system this is important, and in movies you often see the defence lawyer
trying to create the image of a good citizen, while the prosecuter tries
the opposite. In a Napoleon-derived system this is much much less
importanten, and if it is interesting at all it is so for the judge, not
for the police (and ceratinly not for the jury, which we do not have).

Wouter van Ooijen

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